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FOOD CONSUMPTION

• changing food preferences
• livestock
• meat
• fish
• fruits and veg
• high value food items (HVF)

VARIATION IN GLOBAL FOOD CONSUMPTION

• economic power
• technology
• natural events
• socio-political factors
• food stability
• stock piling

IMPACTS OF VARIATION IN GLOBAL FOOD CONSUMPTION

• obesity
• starvation and malnutrition

FACTORS AFFECTING FOOD PRODUCTION

1. physical factors

• climate
• soil type
• relief

2. social factors

• land tenure
• land fragmentation
• land consolidation

3. economic factors

• pricing of food products
• capital

4. political factors

5. technological factors

• research and development
• irrigation canals
• mechanisation of farming practices

THE GREEN REVOLUTION

• biochemical - use of pesticides, fertilizers, hybrid seeds
• mechanical - irrigation canals, mechanization
• social - land consolidation, access to bankloans

problems caused by GV

• unemployment increase due to mechanisation of farming practices
• increase in income gap, poor cant afford new farming method
• excessive use of fertilizers/ eutrophication
• increase in rural to urban migration

advantages of GV

• increase in food production
• increase in national income
• self sufficiency in food supplies
• decrease in famines
• more successful farmer, richer
• surplus food available for exports

disadvantages of GV

• requires expensive inputs
• benefit only the rich and educated
• greater water pollution, eutrophication
• higher resistance of pest to pesticides as monoculture. more pesticides needed, more money needed
• rural unemployment as farming taken over by machines
• seeds sterile, unable to re-plant. poor farmers cannot afford.

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